The U.S. Government project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Started in 1942,the Manhattan Project formally ended in 1946. The Hanford Site, Oak Ridge ...
African American seamstress and active NAACP member arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white patron in Montgomery, Alabama, prompting a huge bus boycott led by Martin ...
Musical style new to the 1950s, combining black rhythm and blues with white country music. Listened to mostly by young Americans and embodied by Elvis Presley, the music softly ...
After an early public life as a committed Cold Warrior, Kennedy ran for the Democratic nomination in 1968 as a peace candidate representative of young liberals. His assassination ...
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